Computers are being taught to learn, reason and recognize emotions. In these talks, look for insights -- as well as warnings.

Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura Indolfi is developing a revolutionary way to treat this complex and lethal disease: a drug delivery device that acts as a cage at the site of a tumor, preventing it fr...

Artificial intelligence is shattering expectations of human predictability, motivation and speed in every part of society – including law. Lawyer Max Sills explores the practical challenges of negotiating with AI-powered systems as they become integrated into the world around us, offering a hopeful path to navigate these soon-to-be transformed i...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey, WorkLifers. We'll be back with season four next month. In the meantime, this is the first of four new episodes of our Taken for Granted series. Merve Emre: Hi. I am Merve Emre. I am an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, and a regular contributor to The New ...

In 2013 Edward Snowden leaked thousands of classified American National Security Agency documents, sparking a global conversation about citizens' rights to privacy on the Internet.

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control June 8, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey, WorkLifers. We'll be back with season four next month. In the meantime, this is the first of four new episodes of our Taken for Granted series. Merve Emre: Hi. I am Merve Emre. I am an associate professor of English at the Univer...

Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.

Is there an equation for intelligence? Yes. It's F = T ∇ Sτ. In a fascinating and informative talk, physicist and computer scientist Alex Wissner-Gross explains what in the world that means.

Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners predict traffic. These AIs are often self-taught, working off a simple set of instructions to create a unique array of rules and strategies. So how exactly does a machine learn? Briana Brownell digs into the three basic ways machines...

Ken Jennings holds the record for most consecutive wins on the classic American trivia game show, Jeopardy.

Technology is changing our world — and how we communicate — at an astonishing rate. So much so that entrepreneur Victor Riparbelli predicts that artificial intelligence will drive audio and video to replace text as our primary form of communication by the end of this decade. He imagines a world where anyone can create a Hollywood film, receive p...

These talks reveal how our technology often reflects the unconscious biases and prejudices we hold.

AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics, says neuroscientist and Stanford professor Surya Ga...

If there’s one AI company that’s made a splash in mainstream vernacular, it’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Former board member and AI policy expert Helen Toner joins Bilawal to discuss the existing knowledge gaps and conflicting interests between those who are in charge of making the latest technology – and those who create our policies a...

ReThinking with Adam Grant What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity with Justin Gregg March 7, 2023 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to expl...

A hostile artificial intelligence called NIM has taken over the world's computers. You're the only person skilled enough to shut it down, and you'll only have one chance. Can you survive and shut off the artificial intelligence? Dan Finkel shows how. [TED-Ed Animation by Artrake Studio]

An advocate of human-computer symbiosis, Shyam Sankar looks for clues in big and disparate data sets.

In far too many countries around the world, an education is not a given for girls. These moving talks are from those facing great risk to change that.

Machine intelligence is here, and we're already using it to make subjective decisions. But the complex way AI grows and improves makes it hard to understand and even harder to control. In this cautionary talk, techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci explains how intelligent machines can fail in ways that don't fit human error patterns -- and in ways w...

For AI to achieve its full potential, non-experts need to contribute to its development, says Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and cofounder of Humane Intelligence. She shares how the right-to-repair movement of consumer electronics provides a promising model for a path forward, with ways for everyone to report issues, patch updates or even retrain AI tech...

In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life— and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the world? Or are we doomed to a robotic takeover? Explore the limitations of artificial intelligence and the pos...

James Flynn challenges our fundamental assumptions about intelligence.

What does it look like inside the mind of a machine? Inspired by the architectural vision of a futuristic Los Angeles in "Blade Runner," media artist Refik Anadol melds art with artificial intelligence in his studio's collaborations with architects, data scientists, neuroscientists, musicians and more. Witness otherworldly installations that mig...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell -- of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant thought experiment: a machine that could form a new bond between animal and human.

A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy.

Builder Yohei Nakajima shares his experience designing BabyAGI, an open-source autonomous AI tool, exploring the evolution of identity, collective consciousness and the limitations of language in the age of artificial intelligence. "AI isn't just reshaping our tools, but our very understanding of ourselves," he says.

Will truth and reason survive the evolution of artificial intelligence? AI researcher Gary Marcus says no, not if untrustworthy technology continues to be integrated into our lives at such dangerously high speeds. He advocates for an urgent reevaluation of whether we're building reliable systems (or misinformation machines), explores the failure...

To shape truly effective artificial general intelligence, we need to incorporate a world model: what it means to be human. Believing the key lies not just in language but in the way our words shape us, AI entrepreneur Walter De Brouwer explores the past, present and future of AGI's evolution — and how our stories build its cognitive functions.

Human potential will only accelerate with AI answering questions better and faster than ever before, says Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of conversational search engine Perplexity. He examines the trends driving new AI-powered tools that nourish curiosity and creativity — and how they might usher in a new era of intellectual growth and disc...